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aemeijers

On 4/19/2011 8:55 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:10:29 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Apr 19, 10:17 am, Borrall wrote:
I'm building an indoor climbing wall out of 3/4" plywood in a finished
space. The wall will be well-secured to beefed-up framing. How do I
avoid rough edges/splinters, particularly at the butt joints between
plywood sheets?

My joint finishing options a
1) Do nothing, simply risk splinters (it's decent grade plywood)
2) Tape/mud as you would with drywall (I doubt it would hold up)
3) Leave a 1/8" gap and use some T-molding between sheets (not exactly
the look I'm going for).

Any other ideas? Besides NOT building a climbing wall, that is?

doesn't exactly answer your question, but I would seriously consider
using T&G the way I'm envisioning this.

That was my first thought.

If he can find a cheap source for 5/4 car siding or 2x t&g roof decking,
that would produce a better-looking wall than plywood. Unless this is a
wall for little kids, it pretty much needs to be 3x or 4x the climbers
height, to provide any sort of climbing experience.

--
aem sends, trying not to think about younger stronger days when I could
climb into the attic area of a just-framed house by jumping up and
grabbing the joists, and pulling myself up with arms and legs....